On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:41, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:03, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:18, <josef.pktd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> What is the best file format for storing temporary data, for chunked
>>>>> saving and loading, that only uses numpy and scipy?
>>>>>>>> An mmapped .npy file would probably serve the purpose well enough.
>>>>>> Thanks, I will try.
>>>>>> The old stats.models had one example with memmapped temporary storage,
>>> where I never managed to figure out how to find and close an open file
>>> handle (on Windows) that was not cleaned up on delete or when the
>>> instance went out of scope.
>>>> Use numpy.lib.format.open_memmap(). When the mmapped array goes out of
>> scope, the associated file object will also get finalized.
>> I will have to experiment more systematically. Now I have several
> memmapped files in my working directory that windows blocks as
> accessed, and I'm not able to close them until I shut down the python
> shell (which I don't want to do since I have other work in it.)
Are you using IPython? IPython can hold onto references to many of the
objects that you use.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco